Books Quote by Kameron Hurley

In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing…

— Evelyn Lau

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise…

— David Guterson

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel…

— Stephenie Meyer

Every time I've written a book, I'm like, 'Oh, it's so different from the last one. Are they going to like it?'

— Lisa Jewell

When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and…

— Robin McKinley

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me…

— Alan Lightman

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have…

— Ian Mcewan

Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher…

— Chris Pavone

When you start off with your first book, people assume that you're like all the characters in the book - and it does complicate…

— Irvine Welsh

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot…

— Jay McInerney